Printed Ephemera
TIME; untimed is a 16-page text by olivier that drifts through a sequence of fractured memories. Phrases loop, skip, and scatter. Non-linear pages shift like unstable coordinates, each arrangement a disjointed map of thoughts. Embedded throughout are recursive images, depictions of watches, wings, and arms, alongside René Magritte’s Time Transfixed, Rick Moranis from Spaceballs, and Lichtenstein’s dagger motif. Beneath the surface, philosophical and literary themes emerge, drawing from object-oriented ontology, Selves à Deux, the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Emil Cioran, and Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life, James Gleick’s Time Travel: A History, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee. Presented for the exhibition Strange Mathematics as a performance, it is printed on yellowed, worn pink construction paper with a matte, slightly rough texture. Designed to be non-linear, it has no specific order and is meant to be read in any sequence.
Year: 2025
Artist: olivier
Pages: 16
Dimensions: 21.6 × 27.9 cm
Process: Inkjet on recycled construction paper
Color: Black and white
Edition Size: 2
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Carry On by D. Wibowo is a poem that moves like a restless thought—a rhythm of transition, where identity shifts, language flickers, and nothing settles. It is a battleground, a bridge, a voice in motion, shaped by the spaces it drifts through. Written for the exhibition Strange Mathematics, it is presented as a two-page print on recycled A4 paper.
Year: 2025
Artist: D. Wibowo
Pages: 2 pgs.,
Dimensions: 21.27 × 29.53 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Black and White
Edition Size: 1
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This single-page handout captures Grace DeVies’ surreal performance at Strange Mathematics, featuring a rendition of Amazing Grace intertwined with a ritual of body, spectacle, and absurdity—perched on a tarp, sinking into a cheesecake. Blending stark imagery with poetic fragments, it preserves a moment of vulnerability, humor, and collective participation. Printed on letter paper.
Title: Amazing Grace
Year: 2025
Artist: Grace DeVies
Pages: 1 pg., double-sided
Dimensions: 21.6 × 27.9 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Black and White
Edition Size: 40
Exhibition print from Strange Mathematics, featuring painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance, held February 28 in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Design and exhibition text by M. Martinez. Printed on recycled letter paper sourced in Chicago, cut from letter size.
Year: 2025
Designer: M. Martinez
Pages: 1 pg., double-sided
Dimensions: 14.0 × 21.6 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Black and White
Edition Size: 30
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All I Have is Poetry by Jessie McCarty is a 5-page reading performance from the "Under the Pendant Light" presented on December 5th, at Stella’s Bar.
Title: All I have is Poetry
Year: 2024
Author: Jessie McCarty
Pages: 5 pgs.
Dimensions: 21.6 × 27.9 cm
Process: Inkjet
Edition Size: 1
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This double-sided print from the exhibition Under the Pendant Light features an illustration by Tong Pan and writing by M. Martinez. The print was part of the exhibition, which opened on December 5th at Stella's Bar in Ukrainian Village, Chicago. Printed on recycled letter paper sourced in Chicago, cut from letter size.
Year: 2024
Designer: M. Martinez and Tong Pan
Pages: 1 pg., double-sided
Dimensions: 14.0 × 21.6 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Full color digital
Edition Size: 50
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The Culture is an Initiation Ritual leaflet provides an inside look at the exhibition’s exploration of cultural transformation through video, painting, sculpture, and installation. Featuring a foreword by 0nty and illustrations by Gabe Johnson, it includes a mapped layout of the sculptural and painted works at Lot49, curated by M. Martinez, alongside a detailed screening schedule for the 17 films selected by Dana Dawud for the film series Open Secret. Printed on recycled letter paper, hand-folded from letter size.
Year: 2024
Designer: Gabe Johnson and M. Martinez
Pages: 4 pgs., leaflet
Dimensions: 14.0 × 21.6 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Black and White
Edition Size: 35
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Soft Systems Index 01 documents the first three pop-up art exhibitions presented by Soft Systems in Chicago. This publication covers "Homebody" (September 2023), "Excess Labor For the Ephemera" (December 2023), and "Memory Map" (May 2024), showcasing a range of contemporary art practices including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, performance, photography, and design.
The featured works come from a diverse group of Chicago-based artists, including Joey Bercen, Jeremy Carter, Adehle Daley, Carmen San Sebastián Diez Del Sel, Rosa El Galicia, Katia Jackson, Tong Pan, Aidan Piper, SOME), Harris Ainsworth, Lara DiBlasio, Marlee Chlystek, Brigid O’Neil, Lorenzo Osterheim, Avery Pollard & Astro Carter, Theo Schweiger 萧世通, Kayla Taylor, John Wright, Simone Whiteley-Allen, Sam Anthem, Melon Sprout, Tunnel, Sonya Bogdanova, Erin Armstrong, Kate Hefferan, Nick Holmes, Isaiah Lee, Mikey Mosher, Estuardo R.F., Ashley Stokols, Yigit Ural, Dylan Bissonette, Niko Woroniecki, and Marina Ross.
Year: 2024
Designer: M. Martinez
Pages: 8 pgs., softcover
Dimensions: 14.0 × 21.6 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Full color digital
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This poster was designed by Dylan Bissonette for the group exhibition Memory Map, which ran from May 16–26, 2024. Printed with a risograph, it has a distinct, textured quality.
Year: 2024
Designer: Dylan Bissonette
Pages: 1 p.
Dimensions: 21.6 × 27.9 cm
Process: Risograph
Color: Monochrome
Edition Size: 50
This print features a poem by Rosa El Galicia, translated into Spanish by Carmen San Sebastián Diez del Sel. Written for Homebody, the inaugural Soft Systems group exhibition, which opened on September 10th,
the piece explores themes of displacement and the search for sanctuary. It speaks to the quiet ache of familiarity, the wear of travel, and the longing for a space where the body can finally heal.
Printed on recycled paper sourced in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, the print was cut from letter size.
The accompanying illustrations are public domain images, archived from Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them (1922) and A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Arisaema Triphyllum (1915).
Year: 2023
Author: Rosa El Galicia
Translator: Carmen San Sebastián Diez del Sel
Designer: M. Martinez
Pages: 2 pgs.
Dimensions: 14.0 × 21.6 cm
Process: Inkjet
Color: Monochrome
Edition Size: 1
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